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Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 07:59:24 -0600
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To: Markus <M4rkusXXL@web.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: objtool segfault with ORC unwinder enabled
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On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 01:22:07PM +0100, Markus wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 12:19:41 CET Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 11:49:08AM +0100, Markus wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > > 
> > > ORC unwinder is enabled in stable for wider testing but still at least one
> > > bug is open:
> > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197035
> > 
> > Random web links on mailing lists don't help much, please put the
> > information here in the email.
> 
> Its not a random web link. Its the official kernel.org bugtracker. But nobody 
> seems to be looking at it.
> 
> > > objtool will segfault because a NULL pointer is dereferenced.
> > 
> > And how are you reproducing this?
> 
> Just building the kernel with ORC enabled.
> (At least for me. Using framepointers compiles, enabling ORC again breaks it.)
> gcc 6.4.0 (In bug report others were tested as well.)
> elfutils 0.170
> What else may be interesting?
> 
> > > Is a NULL pointer sym valid?
> > > If a NULL pointer is invalid, it has to be checked why it is sometimes
> > > NULL.
> > What .config is triggering this problem?
> See attachment.
> 
> > And does this show up on 4.14.11, and 4.15-rc6?
> Both: yes.
> 
> /tools/objtool/objtool orc generate --no-fp "arch/x86/kernel/irq.o"
> 
> => segfault.
> 
> Changing CFLAGS for objtool to O1 and starting from gdb:
> 
> (gdb) r orc generate --no-fp "arch/x86/kernel/irq.o"
> Starting program: tools/objtool/objtool orc generate --no-fp "arch/x86/kernel/
> irq.o"
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x000055555555e06c in elf_rebuild_rela_section (sec=sec@entry=0x7ffff690d010) 
> at elf.c:554
> 554                     relas[idx].r_info = GELF_R_INFO(rela->sym->idx, rela-
> >type);
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x000055555555e06c in elf_rebuild_rela_section 
> (sec=sec@entry=0x7ffff690d010) at elf.c:554
> #1  0x000055555555d0aa in create_orc_sections (file=file@entry=0x7ffffff7d740) 
> at orc_gen.c:210
> #2  0x000055555555c146 in check (_objname=<optimized out>, _no_fp=<optimized 
> out>, no_unreachable=<optimized out>, orc=orc@entry=true) at check.c:1971
> #3  0x000055555555811f in cmd_orc (argc=<optimized out>, argv=0x7fffffffd8d8) 
> at builtin-orc.c:54
> #4  0x000055555555f490 in handle_internal_command (argv=0x7fffffffd8d0, 
> argc=4) at objtool.c:108
> #5  main (argc=4, argv=0x7fffffffd8d0) at objtool.c:131
> (gdb) p rela->sym
> $1 = (struct symbol *) 0x0

Hi Markus,

I'm unable to recreate.  Can you attach one of the .o files (like the
above irq.o)?

-- 
Josh